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W. H. CAMPBELL.

, RAILWAY TIGKKET.

Patentedmy 26, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

YILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

RAiLwAY-ITICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,037, dated May 26,1891. Application tiled October 27, 1890. `Serial No. 369.507. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tickets, fullydescribed and represented in the following specification and theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to that class of railway-tickets known as couponextensionticket-s, which are used by railroads and other transportationcompanies for the purpose of furnishing passengers traveling over two ormore lines with a single ticket, the several coupons of which are takenup by the conductors of the different lines on presentation of theticket, these coupons forming vouchers for the respective lines by whichthe proper charge is made against the line selling the ticket. Theenormous development ot railway and steamboat transportation hasincreased the number of lines and of stations to such an extent that itis practically impossible to keep at each station a stock of tickets foreach separate station on the different lines from and to which ticketsare to be sold, and all systems employing separate tickets for differentstations have proven impracticable on this account and on account of theexpense involved in printing and carrying such large quantities oftickets, many of which are to obscure points and may never be sold, butmust be kept on hand for possible contingencies. rIhese systems,moreover, involve a complex system of book-keeping and impose a largeamountof labor upon the selling agents in handling` and storing thediiferentt'orms. Another difficulty has arisen from the practice ofproviding different forms of tickets for the different classes of traveland the introduction of limited and unlimited, excursion, return, andother special tickets, which multiply the number of forms required. Manyattempts have been made to overcome these difficulties by providing asingle form of ticket for use at all stations of the selling line andgood for several stations on the iinal line and a number of differentcoupon extensioirtickets have been produced, but all previous attemptshave failed to provide a ticket good for all stations on the initial andfinal lines and adapted for use over all lines regardless of the numberof stations, and consequently have failed to meet the requirements ofthe present day. Among the forms referred to is a couponextension-ticket on which the agents stub and each coupon has a smallnumber of the names of stations on the final line printed thereon and towhich tickets can be sold, the ticket being so constructed that thestations upon the agents stub and coupons register alike when theticketis folded, and the destination-station may be punched on allsimultaneously. As will be seen, this provides a ticket which can beused only for a small number of stations on the final line. It isapparent, therefore, that such a ticket is useful only where the lastline has but. a very small number of coupon-stations, because thecoupons must be of limited dimensions to be practicable, and but a smallnumber of stations can be listed on them, in addition to the regularmatter, owing' to want of space, and to provide for even the number ofstations on the smallest lines by this arrangement the coupons would beof such size that they could not be used without increasing the size ofthe ticket beyond convenient dimensions. This ticket therefore hasproven practically useless in the present development oftransportation-lines and the ticket problem has heretofore beenunsolved. By the present invention I provide a coupon extension-ticketso constructed that a ticket of small size may be used for the longestlines and for as many intermediate lines as desired, and which willfurnish an agents stub and coupon-vouchers for a practically unlimitednumber of destinatioirstations on the last line without substantiallyincreasing the size of the stub and `coupon over those used onsingle-station tickets. I accomplish this result by substituting on theagents stub and coupons for the names of the destination-stationsnumbers arranged by units, tens, hundreds, duc., where a large number ofstations are required or numerically for smaller lines, thesenumbersbeing so arranged upon the agents stub and coupons that they maybe simultaneously punched or otherwise can-- celed for indicating thedestination-station. In order to make these severalcoupons intel- I OOligible to the passenger and readily inter-' preted by the variousconductors, auditors, tbc., and especially as a safeguard against fraudupon the traveling public and public carriers by changingl in any waythe destination, station after ithas been punched or other- Wiseindicated, I prefer to print upon the face orback of the iinalline,stub, or contract a list of the names and numbers of all thestations on the final line, by this means :rendering it impossible tochange the destinationstation without immediate detection. While thisindication of destination-station forms the main feature of my improvedcoupon-ticket, and this feature may be used with or without any otherimprovements, I prefer to add other features by which a single form ofticket may be used for all classes of travel for both limited andunlimited tickets, and in short to embody iin a single form the featuresof all the diderent forms now used, so that the same and but. one formwill be used at all stations of the selling line for all stations of anyother connecting road.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a face View of my improvedticket in its preferred form When used for iinal lines having manystations. Fig. 2 is a broken face view of the ticket when used for afinal line having comparatively few stations.

Referring to Fig. l, A is the contract portion of the ticket which isretained by the line to a station ou which the ticket is sold.

B is thelist of destination-stations accompanyi-ng the same.

Cisa series of coupons for the intermediate and final line, and D theagents stub to be retained by the line selling the ticket.

The list of destination-stations B includes sixtyone stations fromPerrysburg to Cincinnati. This list of stations may be printed, asshown,upon an independent part of the contract portion of the ticket, orthe list of stations may be arranged around the edge of the contract orprinted upon the back of the contract portion of the ticket in anymanner desired.

The agents stub and each one of the coupons carries the digits arrangedfor units, tens, and hundreds, the lines of digits being ar ranged inany manner desired, either transversely or longitudinally of the ticket;but all the numbers 'on the stub and all the coupon-s being similarlyarranged, so that they register when the ticket is folded and may bepunched simultaneously. The coupons will preferably be of differentcolors, so as to distinguish those of the different lines.

In addition to the indication of destination, the,y ticket shown isadapted for use either as a limited or unlimited ticket, the contractportion being provided with date-numbers arranged, preferably,longitudinally of the ticket, as shown, and the agents stuband couponsbeing providedl with registering por tions to be punched for a limitedticket, as desired,theunpunched ticket being unlimited. Similarly theticket is tirst class unless otherwise indicated by punching the 2 or 8on the stub and coupons for second or third class,

respectively.

The use of the ticket will be readily underlstood from the exampleshown. The ticket is sold by the New York and Niagara Falls RailroadCompany over its road and the intei'mediate Michigan Central Road to thestation Carthage on the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad, theticket being second class and limited. This ticket is used from anystation of the selling road, the selling station being stamped upon theback of the agents stub, the contract, and all the coupons When theticket is sold. Before or after stamping, the agent folds the couponsand.

stub together and indicates the destinationstation by punching out. inthe tens-column Jthe figure 5 and in the units-column the iigure l,thereby indicating that the ticket is good to destination-station 51,which,.as seen by referring to the list, is Carthage.7 At the saine timethe ticket is marked as limited by punching in the appropriate place andas second class by punching figure 2 under Class The destination-stationis then punched out upon the list of stationsand the limited datepunched upon the contract portion, whiclrin this case is December1,1890. The agents stub is then torn off and retained by the agent andthe ticket delivered to the purchaser.

It is usual to indicate on they coupon and the contract portion thestation from which the ticket is sold, which is done by stamping theback of each coupon and the contract with the selling station. Then buta small number of destination-stations are required, it will be foundpreferable to' arrange the numbers of the stations numerically, as shownin Fig. 2, instead of in the manner shown in Fig. l, as by thisarrangement but a single punch is necessary for indicating any one ofthe stations.

It will readily be understood that, while-for convenience and greatersafety against fraud it is preferable to provide the ticket. with a listof destination-stations, as shown, this is not absolutely necessary 5but this portion of the ticket may be omitted, and the .conducte ors,auditors, and ticket agents be provided with independent lists, whichwill soon become memorized, so as to require no reference thereto.

The ticket may readily be used for return or excursion business bysimply adding the Words and return to the heading of the contract, andthen attaching sufficient additional coupons for the return tripfprintedfor the opposite direction and goodl over the in terinediate roads inthesame manner as the 4outgoing coupons shown andhe-retofore dea scribed.

When the final road operates a large numi ber of stations, the ticketsmay readily be made available for any number of stations IOO that Willever be required by adding another V line of digits, thus enabling thetickets to be used for thousands of destinationstations, and thiswithout any appreciableincreasc in the size ofthe coupons or of theticket if the list of destination-stations be-omitted.

It will be understood that my invention is not to be limited to anyspecial form or arrangement of printing upon the ticket, as anyarrangement suitable for my purpose maybe employed, and that shown formsbut one of many forms which may be used and is shown only as thearrangement whichI have found preferable.

While I have shown the stations as indicated by punching-and this ispreferable as the most convenient method-it Will be understood that thestations may be indicated in any other desired manner, and that wherethere are but a small number of intermediate lines and it is desired toavoid the expense of punches the destination-station may be indicated bycancellation by ink or otherwise of the numerals on the differentcoupons separately and successivelyinstead of sim ultaneously.

What I claim isl. A coupon extension-ticket having its contract portionprovided with a list of destination-stations and their numbers andhaving its coupons provided With numbers for indicating thedestination-stations, substantially as described.

2. A coupon extension-ticket having its contract portion provided with alist of dest1nationstations and their numbers and having 35 its couponsprovided with numbers for indicating the destination-stations, thenumbers on the ditlerent coupons registering When the ticket is folded,but not registering with the list on the contract portion, substantiallyas 4o tract portion provided With a list of destina- 5o tion-stationsand their numbers and having its coupons provided with series of digitsarranged by units, tens, dic., for indicating' the destination-stations,the numbers on the different coupons registering When the ticket is 55folded, but not registering with the list on the contract portion,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of tivosubscribing witnesses.

WM. II. CAMPBELL.

Witnesses:

G. M. Bons'r, J. J. KENNEDY.

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